I wonder where that zero-point engine is. Chatter about them is always noisy in the ‘free-energy’ silos; yet, like nuclear fusion powering all of human society, such alleged devices are always ‘twenty years in the future’ - permanently, of course.
Fwiw, I think any notion of reverse-engineering alleged alien-civ UAP devices is in the same bin as using psi for imperial/military purposes (or indeed the getting of sunbeams from cucumbers, or finding a purified, proven COV2 ‘virus’ anywhere in the world): all ambitions standing on an entirely inadequate theoretical foundation of understanding just what it is that the simplistic reductive-materialist optimists are dealing with. Best thought of as barking up entirely the wrong tree.
In a nutshell, we’ll get a better grasp on UAPs, what they are, and how they work, if we ditch the startrekky hypothesis that they ‘MUST’ be vessels created by ETs from far, far away, and move instead towards the much more fruitful, and historically instanced, idea that they’re novel (and typically intricate and miraculously capable) modern variations on the ancient poltergeist phenomena.
Think of them as creations of the collective human psi facility (which every one of us possesses, somewhere on the standard bell curve, even in a fanatically psi-denying society like Western-civ).
Immediately, from this standpoint all the manifestations make much more sense. You only need to look at the mental ambiance in which we all live right now to see why our collective, unconsciously-employed psi faculty might be conjuring up these UAP displays that are appearing in our time: Something that can outwit easily our lumbering, but still Earth-endangering, techie-toys, both military and civilian. and which can - demonstrably - render them helpless in a moment.
As we move into the new era of long-term economic shrinkage, and the unavoidable de-techifying of society which that decline mandates, I suspect that we shall be seeing more of the already-begun swing away from reductive-materialism as a ruling philosophy, towards much more philosophic-idealism.
Once we’ve dumped the startrekky false-myth of our future, and conjured up, through our more visionary story-tellers, a more realistic real-myth by which to live, we should be able to get a better grasp of what the UAPs really are.
Sureashell they’re not for gaining advantage in stupid rival-empire struggles. The fundamental practical rule of thumb in handling psi is: Never, under any circumstances, use it for attempting anything but white magic. Invariably, the black, and often even the grey, kind, if we try to practice them, end up causing us catastrophic self-inflicted damage to both feet, plus a complete screw-up of our original nefarious goal…
I remain optimistic about our - and the Earth’s - longer term future, once we’ve got through these Interesting Times.